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"Drive Me Crazy" is maybe the eighth movie of 1999 to hinge on a date to the big high school dance. The basic plot has three variations: (1) Will the heroine go with the guy she really likes? (2) Will the guy have sex for the first time? and (3) Will anyone be killed by a mad slasher? Like the Sammy Sosa of movie critics, I will clear the bases by giving away all three endings at once: The answer is always "yes."

What distinguishes "Drive Me Crazy" from your average prom movie is that the characters are more intelligent and have dialogue written with a certain wit and insight. They're not the victims of the plot but its controllers, consciously taking charge of events. And here's a switch: None of them believes the world will end if they go to the dance with the wrong person. The movie is about kids who are as smart as real high school students, while most prom movies have characters who are no smarter than their parents.

The movie stars Melissa Joan Hart , who is "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" on TV but here comes across perky and wholesome, a Doris Day for our time. She's Nicole, the chairman not of the prom but of the big high school centennial dance. She wants to go to the dance with a basketball star, but he strays out of her grasp. Then her thoughtful eye falls on her next-door neighbor Chase ( Adrian Grenier ), who has just been dumped by a brunet vixen. He's a member of the outsider crowd at high school, given to commenting on the "fascist nature of pep rallies," but she takes him to the Gap, gets him a haircut, and he cleans up well. By pretending to be dating, they can both save face. Nicole and Chase are obviously right for one another, but have to make that discovery slowly, through many difficulties, including heart-rending misunderstandings when she sees him kissing the bad girl. You know the drill.

There are some serious notes. His mom died a few years ago, and that led to tension between Chase and Nicole when they were in junior high--tension she analyzes in a scene not only touching but, for some audience members, probably helpful. Her parents are divorced, and her dad is the kind of guy who turns up unpredictably and stages father-daughter moments in which he takes her up in a hot air balloon and hands her Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, suggesting it might help her understand him. She throws it overboard. I felt like cheering.

"Drive Me Crazy" is slight and sweet, not a great high school movie but kinda nice, with appealing performances by Hart and Grenier. I remember him with respect from this summer's " The Adventures of Sebastian Cole ," in which his stepfather wanted to have a sex change. That was a much better movie, which suffered because summer audiences are shy about stories that take more than a sentence to summarize.

Despite my affection, I can't quite recommend "Drive Me Crazy." The good stuff needs more energy behind it. John Schultz's direction is lackadaisical. Scenes arrive without feeling necessary. Plot points are belabored. These characters deserve a quicker pace; sometimes they feel ahead of the movie. Still, there's this: Although "Drive Me Crazy" is indeed based on one of the three basic prom plots, it isn't based on the other two.

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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Drive Me Crazy (1999)

Rated PG-13 For Teen Alcohol and Drug Use, and For Language

Melissa Joan Hart as Nicole Maris

Adrian Grenier as Chase Hammond

Stephen Collins as Mr. Maris

Susan May Pratt as Alicia

Mark Webber as Dave

Kris Park as Ray Neeley

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There's more to like about this movie than you'd probably expect (certainly more than I did). Besides, the all-girl band the Donnas performs a cover of REO Speedwagon's Keep On Lovin' You at the big high school dance. That alone is worth $7.50.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2023

...one of the worst teen dramas to ever emerge out of Hollywood.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2021

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Drunken teens in a story stretched way too thin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

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Vivacious fun....an impressive effort from Joan Hart

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The story, based on a book, is incredibly vapid, but both leads are charming and have great potential.

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Despite its terrible title "Drive Me Crazy" proves more substantial than bubble gum. The story is less comedy than drama, populated by teenage characters who are - you had better sit down for this - believable.

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Drunken teens in a story stretched way too thin.

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A brief fight in which a boy's head is slammed

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The usual PG-13 words, typical of high school.

A lot of drinking by teens with some throwing up;

Parents need to know that there is a good deal of drinking by teens in this movie. Both Nicole and Chase react to setbacks by getting drunk at parties. The kids' attitude seems to be that as long as they have a designated driver, there is no reason kids should not drink. Nicole is also betrayed by a friend, who…

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Parents need to know that there is a good deal of drinking by teens in this movie. Both Nicole and Chase react to setbacks by getting drunk at parties. The kids' attitude seems to be that as long as they have a designated driver, there is no reason kids should not drink. Nicole is also betrayed by a friend, who tells Brian that he should be interested in her because she is willing to have sex with him. Later, Nicole insults her by calling her "easy." A drunken boy attempts to force his intentions on a girl, and, when she refuses, he is abusive and insulting. While there are other sexual references, the behavior of the kids is limited to some romantic kissing. One character arranges a real-life encounter with a cyber-date. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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In DRIVE ME CRAZY, high school seniors Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and her next-door-neighbor/childhood pal Chase (Adrian Grenier) now travel in different crowds. She loves to cheer on the school basketball team and is planning the school's 100th anniversary dance. Chase is a rebel, protesting the mindless conformity of his classmates, too cool to support anything at school. When Nicole is unsuccessful in getting basketball star Brian to the big dance and Chase is dumped by his girlfriend Dulcie, they agree to pretend to be dating to see if they can make their respective heartthrobs jealous. Nicole gives Chase a makeover at Gap, and then they each visit the other's turf. They are surprised to find themselves enjoying each other's environments and friends and enjoying each other. It turns out that they're the ones who get jealous when Brian and Dulcie take the bait.

Is It Any Good?

If a sitcom episode from the TGIF line-up were crossed with an MTV commercial, you'd get Drive Me Crazy . It's a genial half-hour story stretched out to movie length through the insertion of lots and lots of music for the 11- 16 crowd, who will line up to buy the soundtrack album. It is no coincidence that the name of the movie was changed to the name of Britney Spears' current hit song.

While the plot would fit into an old episode of Gidget and the film lacks subtlety and insight, it is undeniably fun to watch. Grenier, in particular, has real charm. This movie also addresses real issues about the tendency of high school kids to categorize themselves according to clearly defined extremes and to stick with friends who reinforce their interests, attitudes, and appearance.

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Families can talk about the issue of cliques and snobbery in school, the importance of feeling liked for what one considers most important about oneself, the dangers of trying to manipulate others, and the difficulty of living with a single parent. One character arranges a real-life encounter with a cyber-date -- is this ever ok and what dangers exist in meeting an online contact in person?

Movie Details

• In theaters : October 1, 1999
• On DVD or streaming : March 14, 2000
• Cast : Adrian Grenier , Ali Larter , Melissa Joan Hart
• Director : John Schultz
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Twentieth Century Fox
• Genre : Comedy
• Run time : 91 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : teen alcohol and drug use, and for language
• Last updated : September 18, 2023

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1999 will be remembered as the year Hollywood turned a magnifying glass on high-school caste systems and held it in one spot for so long that it burned a hole in the subject matter. Smell it? That smoky odor is Drive Me Crazy , just one more film about teens from different worlds united as part of a scheme, only to fall genuinely in love just in time for the big dance.

Nicole (Hart) is a hyper-organized, image-obsessed member of the “in” crowd. The boy next door, Chase (Grenier), is a disaffected rebel who spouts counterculture rhetoric and gets his kicks putting orange dye in the school sprinkler system. She goes to pep rallies. He loathes the “flock” mentality. What could possibly bring them together? A desire to make each other’s exes insanely jealous.

Drive Me Crazy (a title borrowed from a Britney Spears tune) is soft on alcohol use, relies too heavily on sexual banter and employs about two dozen profanities. On the plus side, a young man rescues a girl from date-rape and an estranged dad sacrifices something dear to reconnect with his daughter.

Elsewhere, the film tries to make positive social statements, but comes up short. While it reveres designated drivers, it also titters at teen drinking. A recovered bulimic shares the pain of ascending the social ladder, but seems happier and better off for having done so. And a nerd’s foray into the potentially perilous arena of anonymous cyberdating yields fairy-tale results.

This is a bland stab at helping socially polarized teens develop mutual tolerance. But a reconstituted plot and a morally adrift Hart cause Drive Me Crazy to run out of gas early.

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Hart, Grenier, Thomas dip into movies with ‘Drive Me Crazy’ (1999)

Almost lost in that crazy-loaded teen rom-com year of 1999, “Drive Me Crazy” is a wistful slice of what might’ve been. Melissa Joan Hart’s resume almost entirely consists of sitcoms and Christmas movies, but here she gets to show wider range. And screenwriter Rob Thomas – working from Todd Strasser’s 1998 novel “How I Created My Perfect Prom Date” – pens one of his rare films before becoming a respected TV creator with “Veronica Mars,” “Party Down” and “I, Zombie.”

We shouldn’t feel too wistful, though. Hart probably prefers doing what she’s doing; “Drive Me Crazy” itself includes a gag of her character Nicole stepping on a cat. She’s likely content with being Sabrina the Teenage Witch. And the screenplay unspools very much like a TV pilot episode; Thomas loves his character creations too much for 90-minutes-and-done storytelling.

Searching for their places

“Drive Me Crazy” has a pleasant, leisurely vibe under the direction of John Schultz. He gives hints – a diner parking lot, girls and boys next door, small basketball gyms – that he wants to make a slice-of-high-school film in the vein of “American Graffiti.”

“Drive Me Crazy” (1999)

Director: John Schultz

Writers: Rob Thomas (screenplay), Todd Strasser (novel)

Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Ali Larter

The actors are on board with this approach. Adrian Grenier – who plays love interest Chase — is another one who would find his home in TV, with “Entourage.” The film has a an easygoing charm with bouts of schizophrenia; I wouldn’t be surprised if its creation was partly driven by studio notes. It’s documented that the title was changed (from “Next to You”) and Britney Spears’ “Crazy” was added to the soundtrack after shooting was completed.

However, it doesn’t hurt it too much. Thomas’ interest in timelessness (see also how “Veronica Mars” examines 21 st century high school through a film-noir lens) comes through via several older songs, some covered on screen by The Donnas (who go by The Electrocutes in the film).

Thomas and Schultz blend light comedy (Chase sprays the quad with orange-colored water from the sprinklers), light tragedy (Chase and Nicole have parental losses of different types), and light breakups or missed connections. Chase’s ex Dulcie (Ali Larter) is more heavily into animal rights than he is, while Nicole’s crush Brad (Gabriel Carpenter) is easily distracted by every pretty face.

Nicole and Chase – next-door neighbors and childhood besties who drifted into different cliques (she a student leader, he a good-hearted prankster) — decide they’ll pretend to date in order to make Dulcie and Brad jealous, thus attracting them. We know how this is going to end, but Nicole’s assertiveness makes an appealing contrast to Chase’s uncertainty, and the story isn’t devoid of twists.

Deep character roster

The predictability doesn’t matter too much because Thomas digs deep into every character he invents. One male and one female character (Susan May Pratt, contrasting with her sweeter “10 Things I Hate About You” persona) fit cinematic villain roles, but generally everyone is a believable human.

Designated Dave (Mark Webber) is overly interested in getting people to like him, videophile Ray (Chris Park) respectfully admires Nicole from a distance, and Dee Vine (Keri Lynn Pratt, a teen staple of the era whose biggest role was on “Jack & Bobby” ) struggles to find confidence after losing weight.

Through its ensemble, “Drive Me Crazy” hits on some of that “Graffiti” and “Can’t Hardly Wait” type of longing and hopefulness. It’s missing a little something, though. The main theme is that it’s OK to take your time learning who you are and finding out what (or who) you want. This is totally valid, but we’ve heard it before, and it doesn’t come at us in a particularly profound way in “Drive Me Crazy.”

So 1999 viewers weren’t necessarily wrong to put this one on a back burner behind the likes of “Varsity Blues” and “American Pie” and “Election” and 10 others. And listers of the great teen rom-coms aren’t wrong to leave this one off.

“Drive Me Crazy” has found its appropriate place as a curiosity. You’ll assume it’s fluff meant to sell a pop-star single, but it’s actually a heartfelt early screenplay from a future TV master, with two leads casting their net out the tiniest bit.

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• Nicole and Chase used to be BFFs, then junior high happened. The high school centennial dance is coming but Nicole gets dumped. So does Chase. They stage a relationship to get at their exes. They visit each other's worlds. Love in the air?
• Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors but are from two very different worlds. Despite their differences their love lives have a common theme. Their most recent plans for love have fallen through putting them both in a desperate state to fix them. Both Nicole and Chase conspire to pretend to find a romantic interest in each other, with the hopes of attracting the "ones who got away" from them. Leading up to the big school dance, Chase and Nicole find that their scam worked out better than they had planned.
• Nicole Maris is a popular high school preppy senior in Utah who gets her life turned upside down when her perfect date, Brad, falls for a cute cheerleader from another school a month before the school's centennial senior prom. After recovering from the shock, Nicole comes up with a solution to save her reputation: find a guy to appear like they're going steady and to take her to the dance hoping to make Brad jealous. Nicole then hooks up with her next door neighbor, prankster and trouble maker Chase Hammond, and tries to model him in her own image while he's looking to make his long-term girlfriend Dulcie jealous too. However, both Nicole and Chase don't expect their charade to lead it where they never expected it to. — Matt Patay
• Nicole is popular and stylish and has her sights set on one thing, the gala centennial celebration theme for the prom. She has always been into doing good for the planet. Her second sights are on a date to escort her. But when her dream date invites another girl, Nicole must act fast to find a substitute. She decides to go low and asks her grungy next door neighbor to take her there. But first, he needs a little work done to himself. She gives him a fashion make over to show his true handsome self. — Kyle <[email protected]>

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‘Drive Me Crazy’ (1999) Review

Drive me crazy synopsis: nicole and chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. however, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey. but in the midst of planning a gala centennial celebration, nicole and chase find that the one they always wanted was closer than they ever thought..

Neighbors Nicole ( Melissa Joan Hart ) and Chase ( Adrian Grenier ) used to be friends, but now they run in different social circles. However, when Chase’s socially conscious girlfriend breaks up with him and Nicole’s crush falls for a cheerleader from another school, they team up to make their love interests jealous by pretending to date each other.

I cannot recall watching Drive Me Crazy before, though it’s possible I saw it in 1999 when it was released. There are only a few teen comedies from that era that I actually remember because only a few were memorable; the rest are your typical copycat.

In all honesty, I expected Drive Me Crazy to join the long list of forgettable teen rom-coms, but I was instead pleasantly surprised! I love fake dating stories, especially when there is a history between the two lead characters. Nicole and Chase grew up next door to one another. They were friends until a tragedy in Chase’s life caused Nicole to pull away.

Now Nicole is into the star athlete in school, and Chase is dating Dulcie ( Ali Larter ), a punky girl who is into social activism. Nicole and Chase believe that pretending to be a couple will catch the attention of Brad and Dulcie. We, of course, know better. Because even if their plan is successful, it will be too late, because Nicole and Chase will have caught feelings for each other.

I thought Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier played well off of one another. They had decent chemistry not only with each other but with the supporting cast surrounding them. There were no typical mean girls for Nicole to compete with, though that’s probably because that role was filled by Nicole’s supposed BFF, Alicia, played by Susan May Pratt. Alicia plays the supportive friend while being vindictive behind Nicole’s back.

Chase’s friends, David ( Mark Webber ) and Ray ( Kris Park ) aren’t entirely sure what to think of Chase when he shifts from slacker to Nicole’s preppy boyfriend. David wants to be accepted by the popular crowd himself, so he’s envious of Chase’s sudden social upgrade. Ray is less dramatic and seems more focused on his own crush on Nicole than anything else. It’s teenage drama at its best, yet still so insignificant in the grand scheme of things, as most teen angst is.

While I think Drive Me Crazy was attempting to show how wrong Brad and Dulcie were for Nicole and Chase, I’m not sure it succeeded, at least not in the way it may have wanted. Dulcie breaks up with Chase for not taking her interest in animal rights seriously. She is not an unlikable character. Not wanting to be with a guy who dismisses her passions is a legitimate excuse for breaking up, if you ask me.

And when she begins to observe how Chase is changing himself for Nicole, it concerns her, which tells us she does care about him. Even if it wasn’t intended, I appreciated that Dulcie wasn’t a stone-cold B-word in order to convince the audience that Chase should be with Nicole instead.

As for Brad, he doesn’t do anything wrong other than fall for another girl who seems nice enough. It’s Alicia who screws up that relationship, not Nicole. And Brad is probably the least interesting character in the movie. He’s bland with little character development or personality, so we honestly don’t care about him or Nicole’s crush.

My biggest pet peeve with this movie was I preferred Chase pre-transformation. There was nothing wrong with him. He had curly hair and comfortable clothes that fit with his personality. Then Nicole gets his hair straightened, cut, and slicked back, and he begins to dress in plain clothes you might find on a mannequin in front of some preppy department store. It’s boring. Here’s hoping Chase reverted to his true style without issue after the two finally ended the fake dating charade.

I’m nitpicking now, and I recognize that. Despite its flaws, I found Drive Me Crazy to be a cute movie. Grenier and Hart had decent enough chemistry to make me root for them. There were some genuinely funny moments, and who doesn’t love a school dance confession of love?

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A moving violation if ever there was one, "Drive Me Crazy" is the kind of project that will help steer the teen-movie gravy train right over the cliff. Sloppy and dull in equal measures, pic badly serves its promising male lead, Adrian Grenier ("The Adventures of Sebastian Cole"), and shows that Melissa Joan Hart is yet another tube thesp who can't command the bigscreen.

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A moving violation if ever there was one, “Drive Me Crazy” is the kind of project that will help steer the teen-movie gravy train right over the cliff. Sloppy and dull in equal measures, pic badly serves its promising male lead, Adrian Grenier (“The Adventures of Sebastian Cole”), and shows that Melissa Joan Hart is yet another tube thesp who can’t command the bigscreen. This limp adolescent comedy is obviously a summer release dumped into fall-season detention, with little hope of attracting much of a teen date crowd beyond the “Sabrina” minions.

Rob Thomas’ thuddingly unfunny script is alternately faithful to and miles away from Todd Strasser’s breezy, if preachy, novel “How I Created My Perfect Prom Date,” the second in the prolific Strasser’s series of tomes for young adults set at fictitious Time Zone High. But like the novel, pic is never quite sure whether to establish an exaggerated, outrageous tone for the story of a clean-scrubbed popular girl and an alienated guy, or go for a relaxed naturalism.

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Under John Schultz’s wan direction, point of view is a mess throughout. Action begins with Nicole Maris (Hart) getting primed for another day of prepping the 100-year-old school’s big Centennial Week while slacker Chase Hammond (Grenier) pulls pranks with fellow dudes Ray (Kris Park), an anarchic videomaker, and Dave (Mark Webber), who volunteers to drive drunken jocks home from parties.

What could have been a funny and insightful look at high school’s strict social castes, as well as the false assumptions teens make about one another, is blandly uninvolving. The comedy tries to get into gear by posing a compare/contrast between longtime neighbors and ex-pals Nicole and Chase. He just wants to hang at the coffeehouse with animal rights activist g.f. Dulcie (Ali Larter), while Nicole’s purpose in life is to snare hoops star Brad (Gabriel Carpenter) for the Centennial dance.

But Nicole witnesses Brad swooning for a cheerleader whom he crashes into during a game, and Chase loses Dulcie. In an arch and unnecessary alteration from the book, Nicole’s new project is to make it look like she’s taking Chase to the dance by attending to him and dressing him up, but with the ulterior motive of provoking Dulcie to take Chase back. One look at the new Chase convinces Ray and Dave that their bud’s lost it. But what Nicole doesn’t know is that sly friend Alicia (Susan May Pratt) has her own strategy in action, leading to the kind of standard character reversals that the filmmakers find infinitely more paradoxical than they actually are.

While Thomas’ script wisely does away with the book’s formulaic anti-drug line, and invents the one visually funny joke in the film — Ray creates a subversive video aired over the school’s closed-circuit TV — it also virtually ignores tome’s attention to Nicole’s and Chase’s divorced parents. By doing so, pic’s capper involving Nicole’s mom (Faye Grant) and Chase’s dad (William Converse-Roberts) comes out of nowhere. As Nicole’s inattentive dad, Stephen Collins looks like he’s stumbled in from another movie.

Hart doesn’t look much better, appearing at times dazed and seldom charming. Grenier is the only thesp here indicating that something is going on between the ears, but like Hart, he doesn’t assert any personality or energy over the silly script. Webber’s Dave, conflicted between his friends’ anti-jock values and his need to help out, is the only other character who registers any life.

Setting, sans views of teachers teaching and students studying, hardly seems real, yet design and tech credits do nothing to give sense that this is a stylized view of teen turmoil. In a bizarre touchemphasizing Greg Kendall’s poor score, a music cue from Bernard Herrmann’s ultra-passionate love theme from “The Trouble With Harry” is employed under Nicole and Chase’s inevitable smooch.

• Production: A 20th Century Fox release of an Amy Robinson production. Produced by Robinson. Co-producer, Nancy Paloian-Breznikar. Directed by John Schultz. Screenplay, Rob Thomas, based on the novel "How I Created My Perfect Prom Date" by Todd Strasser.
• Crew: Camera (Deluxe color), Kees Van Oostrum; editor, John Pace; music, Greg Kendall; music supervisors, Tom Wolfe, Manish Raval; production designer, Aaron Osborne; art director, Erin Cochran; set designers, Carl Stensel, John R. Uibel; costume designer, Genevieve Tyrrell; sound (Dolby), Ken Teaney, Marshall Garlington; assistant director, Paul N. Martin; casting, Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne Walken. Reviewed at the Plaza Theater, L.A., Sept. 23, 1999. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 91 MIN.
• With: Nicole Maris - Melissa Joan Hart Chase Hammond - Adrian Grenier Alicia - Susan May Pratt Ray Neeley - Kris Park Dave - Mark Webber Dulcie - Ali Larter Mr. Maris - Stephen Collins Brad - Gabriel Carpenter Mr. Rope - Mark Metcalf Mr. Hammond - William Converse-Roberts Mrs. Maris - Faye Grant

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Drive me crazy.

1999 Directed by John Schultz

The last guy she wants is the only one she needs.

Nicole and Chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. However, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey. But in the mist of planning a gala centennial celebration, Nicole and Chase find that the one they always wanted was closer than they ever thought.

Melissa Joan Hart Adrian Grenier Susan May Pratt Kris Park Ali Larter Mark Webber Gabriel Carpenter Stephen Collins Mark Metcalf William Converse-Roberts Faye Grant Lourdes Benedicto Keri Lynn Pratt Natasha Pearce Derrick Shore Jordan Bridges Keram Malicki-Sánchez Andrew Roach Joey Lopez Jessica Frandsen Kristy Wu Lee Holmes Jacque Gray Ivey Lloyd Terry Walters Lauren Reneé Boyer Elizabeth Hart Doug MacMillan Mary A. Daniels Show All… Holly Swain Maya Ford Torry Castellano Allison Robertson Marc Valasquez Brendon Te Tony Te Darby Bailey

Director Director

John Schultz

Producers Producers

Amy Robinson Nancy Paloian Jonathan McHugh

Writer Writer

Original writer original writer.

Todd Strasser

Casting Casting

Sheila Jaffe Georgianne Walken

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

Kees Van Oostrum

Production Design Production Design

Aaron Osborne

Composer Composer

Greg Kendall

Costume Design Costume Design

Genevieve Tyrrell

Grand March Productions Amy Robinson Productions 20th Century Fox

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01 oct 1999, 02 jun 2000, 09 jun 2000, 15 jun 2000, releases by country.

• Theatrical 6
• Theatrical APTA
• Theatrical 12
• Theatrical PG-13

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Review by Ilseilsina ★★★★★ 6

Who are we making jealous? Everyone, nicole, everyone

fUCKkkkk me

Review by Laura ★★★★★ 2

that ending with their parents didn't happen

Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★½ 3

i'm asbolute trash for this type of movies and i'm not even sorry

Review by siobhan ★★★★½ 2

no offence but the fact this is the fake dating trope AND childhood friends to enemies to lovers ..... i genuinely dont understand what more you could ask for why arent there more movies like this

Review by Sara Strack ★★★★★

i am trash for 90's highschool romcoms.

Review by nora ★★ 7

????? i was gonna make a joke about frosted lips with dark lip liner in this review but then the ending happened?????? if you don't want this movie spoiled don't read ahead but WE NEED TO DISCUSS THE BONKERS FINAL SCENE OF THIS FILM

the main characters get to the door and kiss goodnight (and there's this VERY classic cinema orchestral score that just comes out of nowhere and feels tonally wrong). then the girl's mom emerges from the boy's house, clearly in a post-coital button down belonging to the boy's dad, who follows her in finding their children in a lovers' embrace. the parents announce that they're all moving in together (i should mention, this is the first time…

Review by milja🦦🍄 ★★★½

lets just all ignore the ending

Review by eebs ★½

I literally don’t understand a single relationship between any two people in this movie

Review by sharpayevans ★★★

listen its a 90s romcom with britney spears on the soundtrack and a mall montage its kinda hard not to like

Review by alyna ★★★ 1

im a hoe for fake dating

Review by Laura ★★★★★

Adrian Grenier deserved to be the king of romcoms!

Review by bella ☆ ★★★★½ 1

adrian grenier: *exists* me: call me old fashioned but i was raised to serve my man. clean up after him, take care of him every day, cook for him, wash his clothes, fold his laundry, run his bath. his needs come before mine. he owns me. i am his property. if he ever cheats that’s on ME. he caught me slipping and i will apologize and do better.

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Review by Adam Goldberg

Once in a blue moon, a teen romantic comedy breaks the classic, Screenplay 101 formula and cleverly turns the genre on its ear. Movies like Clueless, Bring It On, and Election push the envelope and elevate the potentially derivative teen formula to new levels. Conversely, Drive Me Crazy blatantly recycles the teen romantic comedies of the late '90s and presents a string of high school clichés that epitomizes the trite teen flick. Drive Me Crazy shares countless thematic and narrative similarities with She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Whatever It Takes, serving up another exploration of the intricate hierarchy of high school, from the elite popular crowd to the nerd herd that desperately seeks acceptance. Unfortunately, the world presented is completely contrived and unrealistic. In this fabricated school, kids drive "designated-driver-mobiles," religiously watch the live school-news show, and go inner-tubing in their free time. Drive Me Crazy is penned by Rob Thomas of Dawson's Creek, but this effort lacks the compelling characters and insight that the WB show offers. Director John Schultz serves up a belabored and lifeless film that deserves a quicker pace. Star Melissa Joan Hart is clearly going through the motions with this performance, which seems to be Sabrina the Witch minus the magical powers and the irritating black cat. Drive Me Crazy may amuse its target audience, but more sophisticated viewers will take the title literally and be driven to the brink of insanity.

Drive Me Crazy Review

09 Jun 2000

Drive Me Crazy

At some point a man has to take a stand. A woman can take one as well, obviously, but it's rather less likely to happen over a dull as dishwater teen romcom. But, if there's one thing guaranteed to drive grown men and women completely gaga, it's this lukewarm rehash of Dawson's Creek leftovers.

Kind of She's All I Hate About You, this time the will-they-won't-they? couple are television's very own teenage witch, Melissa Joan Hart (the charisma of Jennifer Love Hewitt and the comic timing of Neve Campbell rolled into one dismal package) and newcomer Adrian Grenier.

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If you were to choose a "Miss School Spirit", your best candidate would be Nicole.

Release date October 1, 1999

Run Time: 91 minutes

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The guide to our grades, parent movie review by rod gustafson.

If you were to choose a “Miss School Spirit”, your best candidate would be Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart a.k.a. Sabrina the Teenage Witch). Her school day is filled with planning a centennial dance (assigned a budget that would make most school boards envious) and studying star basketball player, Brad (Gabriel Carpenter).

Nicole drags Chase to hangouts where many popular students are drinking heavily. Responsibly, the script includes Designated Dave, an always-sober boy who tries to earn respect from the cool crowd by offering them rides home after their parties. But that doesn’t cure the plague of minors drinking, especially when both main characters dangerously turn to booze to relieve their problems. Another short scene depicts illegal drug use.

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Why do movies frequently portray popular people in a negative way and unpopular people as heroes? Are these portrayals accurate?

Are there other concerns related to drinking heavily, besides driving home safely? Are more teens drinking alcohol today than when your parents went to high school? Why or why not?

DRIVE ME CRAZY

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Mixed worldview with pagan element of scheming teenagers & some moral elements of defending the weak, reconciliation & teenager identifies himself as a Lutheran; 18 obscenities & 3 profanities; mild violence including falls, girl uses mace on a would-be assailant & a brief scuffle where man is thrown against car & beaten; no sex but some heavy kissing, oogling & a few implied sexually active teens; men & women in swimsuits; implied teen alcohol use & teen vomits from drunkenness; a few characters smoke & briefly depicted marijuana use by an extra character; and, constant pranks.

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Melissa Joan Hart has slowly built a following with her TV mainstay, SABRINA, THE TEENAGE WITCH. It is easy to see her work her way into feature film with a mild, predictable teen comedy. DRIVE ME CRAZY follows the plot of many current teen movies about a high society teenager eventually getting romantic with a freak or geek, the classic “Taming of the Shrew” story from Shakespeare. Though it has its share of negative content, DRIVE ME CRAZY seems a refreshing teen comedy in that the protagonist’s goal is not to lose his/her virginity. Two movies this summer, AMERICAN PIE, about teenagers, and AUSTIN POWERS, made for teenagers, both had their leads looking for sexual activity.

Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) and Chase (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors, but worlds apart. She loves her high school career, diving into her classes and her extra-curricular activities with equal gusto. He wears dark clothes, doesn’t talk much and likes to go to protests and sip coffee in dark coffee houses. When Nicole’s basketball-playing boyfriend accidentally bumps into a cheerleader during a game, he dumps Nicole and starts dating the cheerleader. Meanwhile, Chase’s girlfriend dumps him. Hence, Nicole and Chase reluctantly join forces to date each other in a scheme to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey.

In the process, Chase gets a make-over to a more clean-cut image, and Nicole visits some of Chase’s old haunts. They learn to appreciate the culture that each other appreciates. Eventually, conniving outsiders trap Nicole and Chase, exposing their pretend romance which temporarily foists them back in the arms of their old paramours. However, both Chase and Nicole realize that they love each other and don’t want to be back with their old relationships.

Dramatically, this movie covers well-trodden ground and adds little except to introduce two new fresh faces waiting to be regular film actors in the coming decades. (Adrian Grenier seems to be picking up the mantle of expressionless mysterious acting as seen by Val Kilmer.) Music, acting, directing are only serviceable.

Morally, this movie flirts with having a moral center, but doesn’t quite achieve it. Sex and nudity are refreshingly absent, but both Nicole and Chase drink alcohol. (The movie, however, never shows any beer cans or bottles of booze, but merely implies that the cups are spiked punch.) A few of their classmates are pot smokers, one is implied to engage in homosexual activities and all of them seem to engage in tomfoolery and deception to achieve their goals. Chase, in fact, is clearly branded from the start as a prankster.

Yet, Chase defends some of his unpopular friends, and he eventually decides to be honest about his feelings for Nicole. One character defends himself in saying that he is not in a cult, rather he is Lutheran. Meanwhile, Nicole is pursued by her formerly estranged father (MOVIEGUIDE® friend Stephen Collins, from TV’s 7TH HEAVEN) to have a better father/daughter relationship. Nicole learns to trust Chase more, while she learns her father also is trustworthy.

All of this nicety would bode for well for a better acceptability rating, but, at the very end, Chase’s single father and Nicole’s single mother tell their children that they are going to be “moving in together,” and Nicole and Chase run off to the treehouse, supposedly for some sexual activity.

DRIVE ME CRAZY will probably only drive the most emotional teenagers crazy. It is a standard, run-of-the-mill teen comedy with everything you would expect from a teen movie and nothing more. Be assured, if you miss this one, another one almost just like it will hit the screens in the coming year.

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Drive Me Crazy is a high school romcom teen movie from 1999, answering to troperiffic traditions of the genre in The '90s . It is named after the Britney Spears song by the same name, which is featured in the film's soundtrack. Melissa Joan Hart as Nicole, a popular Extracurricular Enthusiast Genki Girl . She used to be friends with Chase, the Troubled, but Cute boy next door , portrayed by Adrian Grenier . She and her Alpha Bitch best friend Alicia are in with the in crowd and she is avidly planning the Centennial party for their school. The Cynic that she is, she plans on most-popular-guy ever, Jerk Jock Brad, to take her to that party, even though they are not dating and he has apparently fallen in love with a ditzy Pom-Pom Girl cheerleader. Afraid of the humiliation of going to snag her own in-universe crowning Moment of Awesome , she asks Chase to go with her. As Chase was recently dumped by his Soapbox Sadie girlfriend, Dulcie ( Ali Larter ), he obliges and crosses high school social dividers into Nicole's posse, going from a loser to the new it guy, to the dismay of his friends.

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• Acquired Situational Narcissism : Chase
• All Love Is Unrequited : Ray has feelings for Nicole, Alicia and Nicole are both scheming to get Brad's affection and approval, while he falls for a different girl.
• Always Someone Better : it's very clear that Alicia is very jealous of Nicole, to the point of deliberately sabotaging Nicole's love life. She convinces Brad not to go after Nicole after his break up and tries to seduce him herself, and aggressively hits on Chase at a house party just so Nicole can see them kissing.
• Dave and Dee are a romantic, played straight example, as both are sweet, shy nice kids with a deep need for approval.
• An interesting platonic variation of the trope is lampshaded by Dee, who calls Chase a "kindred spirit", as both are former nerds who made it into the cool kids crowd via makeovers.
• Beautiful All Along - Chase, to the surprise of exactly no one.
• Becoming the Mask
• Be Yourself
• Comically Serious : Dulcie, at times.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine : Nicole is the blonde both to Aloof Dark-Haired Girl Alicia and Darker and Edgier Dulcie.
• Expy : One can only hope the creators of the film realized how much this film's plot resembles Can't Buy Me Love .
• Extracurricular Enthusiast : Nicole
• Extreme Doormat : Designated Dave, who will keep sucking up to awful Jerk Jock types who won't stop calling him Designated Dave or treat him like he's an actual person.
• Fake Band : Chase is a fan of rock band The Electrocutes, who are portrayed by The Donnas (a band who did originally call themselves The Electrocutes before getting signed)
• Geek Physique : Designated Dave, as well as Dee in her formerly fat days.
• Genki Girl : Nicole
• Heel Realization : Nicole has a minor one when she realizes how mean she and her friends were to mock Ray and Dave, Chase's old friends.
• Jerk Jock : most of them, but emotionally abusive Eddie is by absolutely the worst.
• Meaningful Name : Dulcie, short for Dulcinea , is idealized by Chase.
• Oblivious to Love : Chase is pretty unaware that Nicole has developed real feelings for him.
• The Prankster : Chase and Ray.
• Tsundere : Duclie, towards Chase.
• Soapbox Sadie : Dulcie and her "edgy" passion for spoken word poetry and Animal Wrongs Group antics.
• We Used to Be Friends : Chase and Nicole, originally, but also Chase with Ray and Dave for a while.
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